“Because now you want to be paid for it. That makes you a whore!” I winced inwardly as soon as the words left my mouth, but there was no taking them back.
“Well fuck you, too!” She screamed at me, grabbed her suitcase, and lumbered to the door. I didn’t get out of her way, forcing her to maneuver around me. We didn’t talk again. Ever.
I didn’t want Raine to have to endure any fallout from her one video, but I also didn’t want her to go down that same road Shelly never came back from. I hoped I would get a chance to talk to her about it. Even if that meant telling her what I knew of Shelly’s foray into porn. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear from Raine again that afternoon. Then I remembered she was going to her friend’s party.
I went back to the bar that night. It was just like Thursday in that there were a mix of people all looking to drown their busy lives. The young girl from last week made a grand entrance that got everyone’s attention as she strutted in wearing stilettos under a purple micro-mini spandex dress that hugged her generous bosom and followed her curve to a tiny waist and a flare of hips. She did look delectable as she scanned the room, presumably looking for her target of the evening to order her a drink. As she looked, her gaze landed on me, and she smiled and winked at me before continuing her scan.
I had no plans of a hookup for the evening, but if one happened, I would be happy to enjoy it. I just stopped in for a beer, but I entertained the fantasy that the girl wanted to give me a taste of her charms. I spent twenty minutes talking sports with Joe, the bartender, when someone slid onto the stool next to me.
“Is this seat taken?”
“It is now,” I said before turning. When I did, words escaped me. She was there in all her radiant glory. Her purple dress caught the light in effervescent sparkles. The swell of her young, firm breasts offered a tantalizing cleavage in the plunging neckline. I had to force my eyes up to view her face. This night, she had put effort into her appearance. Her makeup was perfect to highlight her features without looking garish. She fixed a demure smile on me and flitted her eyelashes, bringing to mind Jessica Rabbit’s flirtation with Eddie Valiant. I had planned on some kind of witty one-liner, but all I could manage was more of a vocalized exhalation. “H-h-h-i-i-i.”
“Hi.”
Get it together man. Why are you tongue-tied? You were talking girls out of their panties before this girl was ever conceived. “Randy.”
“Are you?” She smiled at her double-entendre.
“Crawford. Randy Crawford. Can I buy you a drink?” I saw that she already had one, so I was hoping she would decline. I still thought she was under-aged, but I didn’t want to seem rude by not offering.
“I’m good. But maybe later.” Her smile never left her face.
“What happened to your guy?” I tilted my head toward the table she had joined when she first came in.
“Oh, he’s not my guy. Just a friend I met here once.”
“Oh? You single?”